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Private health rebates should be means tested – and here's why - Transforming The Nation's Healthcare

Transforming The Nation's Healthcare

Private health rebates should be means tested – and here's why Transforming The Nation's Healthcare by admin in Featured, Government on 7 Feb, 2012 The government's bill to means test private health insurance rebates for high-income earners is scheduled for debate on Thursday in the House of Representatives. The package would deliver around $2.8bn ... Call to fix deficiencies in public health care systemBahamas Tribune all 4 news articles »

Most private employers providing health insurance to workers - Baltimore Sun (blog)

Most private employers providing health insurance to workers Baltimore Sun (blog) By Meredith Cohn Just 17 percent of Maryland's adult private sector workers went without health insurance in 2010, compared with 22 percent nationally, according to a report put out by the Maryland Health Care Commission. and more »

Why the Health Care Law Is Constitutional - Huffington Post (blog)

Politico

Why the Health Care Law Is Constitutional Huffington Post (blog) The individual mandate also enables spreading of an insurer's risk, and the larger this "health risk pool" (ACA sec. 1501(a)(2)(I)) becomes the less any one person has to pay to access and afford health care services in America. Health Care Reform Update -- February 6, 2012JD Supra (press release) Immigration, health care hot comboNashua Telegraph Obama's Affordable Care Act is bad medicine for AmericaAnnArbor.com The Advocate -Concord Monitor -SU The Daily Orange (subscription) all 24 news articles »

Private health changes will pass: PM - Sydney Morning Herald

The Age

Private health changes will pass: PM Sydney Morning Herald Prime Minister Julia Gillard expects the Labor government will finally get legislation through federal parliament to means test the private health insurance rebate for wealthier Australians. Debate on the controversial measure is scheduled to resume in ... Rate cut, economy in focusThe Australian all 1,836 news articles »

Gary bishop blasts health care law as attack on religious freedom - nwitimes.com

Kansas City Star

Gary bishop blasts health care law as attack on religious freedom nwitimes.com Calling it an attack on religious freedom, the region's leading Catholic authority has taken aim at a federal law that would force most private health insurance plans to cover birth control, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. Matt Reed: Health care ruling tramples faithFlorida Today Catching up with Conservatism: A New PapacyThe Daily Gazette Health-care coverage must have a conscienceSentinel and Enterprise PBS NewsHour -WBUR -Los Angeles Times all 1,274 news articles »

Health care reform: Insurance exchange should include large employers - OregonLive.com

Health care reform: Insurance exchange should include large employers OregonLive.com 1, 2014, the exchange will be a central marketplace for individuals and employers with 50 or fewer employees to purchase private health insurance plans. In 2016, employers with as many as 100 employees may participate. But to achieve the exchange's ... Assembly Committee Clears Health Insurance Exchange BillNJ Spotlight Questions raised about proposal for Pennsylvania's insurance exchangeAllentown Morning Call all 9 news articles »

Oregon Progressives Throw Health Insurance Under the Bus - eMaxHealth

Oregon Progressives Throw Health Insurance Under the Bus eMaxHealth While some liberals in the Democratic Party sought to make universal health care the foundation for health care reform in 2009, more moderate thinking Democrats settled on reform that included a role for private sector health care and insurance ... and more »

New threat to ALP's surplus as Tony Crook opposes means test on private health ... - The Australian

New threat to ALP's surplus as Tony Crook opposes means test on private health ... The Australian KEY independent Tony Crook has declared he won't support the Gillard government's means test on the 30 per cent private health insurance rebate, jeopardising the fate of the $2.9 billion savings measure that accounts for half Labor's planned 2012-13 ... and more »

Columbia must address health-care costs - The State

Columbia must address health-care costs The State COLUMBIA City Council has little alternative but to make changes to control costs in its health-care program for employees and retirees. The fact is that the city's long-term health-care costs, like those for many governments and private companies, ...